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Goggia and his return to Lenzerheide described in detail: "I was ready to compete, now I will rest before I can do twenty days of testing. I have to improve on many aspects, from smoothness to jumps".
Wednesday 17 March 2021 6 minutes reading time
A recovery that she herself defined as “impressive”, to present herself at the starting gate of that descent that was to be decisive for the defense of a specialty World Cup she had dominated.
Today Sofia Goggia celebrated her second crystal ball in Lenzerheide, without taking to the track with the cancellation of that last appointment that the Bergamo champion had given herself just 45 days after the fracture in the lateral tibial plate of her right knee remedied Garmisch. And be careful, because the Olympic champion wanted to reiterate, speaking in the early afternoon in an online conference with the Italian media, that she would have played on the "Beltrametti" all right, "since I competed in far worse conditions than how I'm now ".
Obviously he will not play the super-g on Thursday and not even the giant on Sunday (“I'll be back to celebrate the Bassino cup”), being able to now get under for a full recovery after having obtained his goal. “When I get involved, even if not in top form, it means that I can do great things - explained Goggia - When I won the Olympic gold, I had a bad knee from struggling to climb stairs ...
I think there is no doubt about which girl deserved this cup for the seasonal performance: I remember that 3 years ago in Are there was the risk of cancellation, but inside I said that I preferred to play it all the way and finish second, rather than win it at the table (he succeeded by finishing 2nd in the final descent behind Lindsey Vonn, beaten by 3 points), but in this case the situation is different since, despite missing two races, I was still +70 on the second.
Was it a risky recovery? No, I would call it a considered gamble, I don't like the idea that it appeared like a crazy attempt. When did I realize I could win the cup again? After the second descent in Val d''Isère, when I won by skiing at 80% ”.
Does Sofia consider this cup a sort of compensation for the Cortina World Cup lost in that way? Nì ... “The cruelty of that injury was great, I had many difficult moments in the first twenty days, a real limbo in which I lived. I also think that fate helped me for the stubbornness I put in place to present myself at the start here in Lenzerheide, because it was not easy to put together the recovery times, the loads to manage and the therapies. We did it with the right people at our side, and to think that the same coaches who saw me arrive in Livigno, didn't think they were in such good condition.
I had an impressive recovery, but those who know me well know that it is not such a strange thing ”.
Goggia has shortened the times by about twenty days, thus giving himself the opportunity to better manage this post season which is so important already thinking about 2021/22. "I will rest this week, then I expect about ten days of re-athleticization to give the knee the necessary elasticity, and then return to skis with a camp of about twenty days after Easter and until the end of April, if there will be permission. What will we work on? I suffered a lot on the planes, just think of how much I lost in the races in Val d''Isère, so I'll have to focus on smoothness and I'd like to do some work on the jumps, because I'm still lacking there.
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